Tag: arts
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Irish music, jazz, Mozart top list of concert options in Colorado Springs
– “Mostly Mozart Concert,” by Soli Deo Gloria Choir: More than 250 singers from the Soli Deo Gloria Choir, Pueblo Choral Society and Colorado State University Pueblo Choir will perform mostly works by Mozart, including his Requiem in D Minor. The free concert is from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, First United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada…
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New Colorado Springs play filled with literal, metaphorical ghosts
Your theatrical mission, should you choose to forgo leaving a performance with everything tied up in a cheery bow, is to attend August Strindberg’s 1907 play, “The Ghost Sonata,” with an open mind. The new production, by students in the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Department of Visual and Performing Arts, opens Thursday at Ent…
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Pikes Pick: Get ready to cry, marvel at ‘The Correspondent’ novel
I’ve read the most brilliant book: “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans. Caveat: Don’t read if you don’t like or want to cry, because you will likely find a few teardrops crinkling the pages or dripping onto your e-reader. In Evans’ 2025 epistolary novel, we meet Sybil Van Antwerp, who emails and writes letters to everyone…
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Colorado Springs Philharmonic announces its 100th season
Ordering up one extra-large birthday cake and candles. The Colorado Springs Philharmonic will celebrate its 100th anniversary this fall when the 2026-27 season kicks off Sept. 26-27. Highlights of the centennial season include renowned violinist Joshua Bell; several live cinema events, including “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The season…
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Back on the big screen: Catch ‘Sinners,’ ‘F1’ and other Oscar-nominated films at Cinemark this week
The red carpet isn’t the only place to catch this year’s Oscar buzz. Before Hollywood crowns its winners, Cinemark is bringing the celebration to the big screen nationwide. Starting Monday and continuing for a week, movie lovers can experience this year’s most acclaimed films again in Cinemark auditoriums. Presented as part of the annual Oscars…
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Colorado Springs festival celebrates electronic music
Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear their songs at the third annual Electrowave: The Rocky Mountain Electronic Music Festival. The mostly free event is Friday through Sunday at…
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World’s only film festival celebrating mushrooms comes to Colorado Springs
Ben Kinsley is a man who likes to dress up as a mushroom. For the past several years, he and his creative team of Riitta Ikonen and Jessica Langley have attended the Telluride Mushroom Festival, which is famous for its costume parade and costume contest. And each year, they’ve managed to crack the code and…
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Chamber Orchestra of the Springs announces new season in Colorado Springs
Poetry and literature are the inspiration behind the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs’ 43rd season. The 2026-27 season also honors Maestro Thomas Wilson’s 30th anniversary as music director. To celebrate, Wilson will feature musicians from the orchestra as soloists throughout the year, as well as showcase American composers as a tribute to the 250th anniversary…
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New Colorado Springs exhibit features yard art by more than 30 artists
Art exhibits don’t only inhabit fancy galleries. They can also sprout up in the most innocuous of spaces – a front yard. The new exhibit “Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard” at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 30 W. Dale St., explores the role of yards in shaping contemporary…
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Retrospective of Colorado Springs artists Eric Bransby, Mary Ann Bransby, film installation, First Friday openings this weekend
“Bransby Retrospective”: Eric Bransby, who died in 2020, has 30-plus murals in prominent buildings across the U.S. His wife, Mary Ann Bransby, who died in 2011, was a longtime painter who founded Pikes Peak Watercolor Society. A collection of their works is up through March 13 at Pikes Peak State College Gallery at Studio West.…